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One day at work, I was leading a working meeting. It was productive with lots of good discussion and time spent at the whiteboard writing down process maps and other corporate stuff. I had called the meeting, [...]
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More than two years ago, I wrote a post comparing these two companies.
The situation today, August 2008:
Price
Market Cap
Net Income(last quarter)
Total Revenue(last quarter)
Apple (AAPL)
175.85
155,770
1,072
7,464
Progressive Insurance (PGR)
18.37
12,524
215
3,536
(All information in this table taken from closing numbers on 15-Aug-08. All dollar values in the table in millions.)
…and in May 2006:
Price
Market Cap
Net [...]
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Walkability and Noise
Being able to walk around my neighborhood is important to me. It’s one of the key things I considered when considering where I would purchase a house. I wanted to live in a place where I could easily walk to what I needed and could drive to many more.
One friend recently [...]
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“Well stolen is half-finished.”
If I could remember who first told me that, I’d buy that person a drink. It’s been some of the most valuable advice I’ve ever received. Once I started using it, in my professional life, things suddenly became orders-of-magnitude easier…
Well Stolen
One of the things that frustrate me in the corporate [...]
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I’ve been thinking about spam. I get tons of spam every day.
I didn’t do anything unwise to get more than 1,000 spam a day. I’ve had my “main” email address for more than ten years. When I first bought my domain, spam didn’t exist and there wasn’t any reason you couldn’t post [...]